Mauro Peter

Tenor

Biography highlights

RECENT & UPCOMING

Mauro Peter’s 2018/19 season includes his return to the Zurich Opera and Theater an der Wien as well as his recitals at Konzerthaus Wien, Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Musikverein Graz, Prinzregententheater in Munich and for the Mozartwoche Salzburg.

Mauro will sing Handel’s Messiah under Daniel Hope in Barcelona, Matthäus-Passion with Trevor Pinnock in Ottawa, Mozart and Vivaldi for Teatro alla Scala, and he was invited to take part in Alfred Brendel Hommage in Prague.

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

Since the 2013/14 season, he is an ensemble member of the Zurich Opera and in addition he has sung at the Opéra National de Paris, Bayerischen Staatsoper München, La Scala Milano, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra de Lyon, Theater an der Wien and he is a regular guest, since 2012, at the Salzburg Festival.

Born in Luzern, Mauro studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Fenna Kügel-Seifried.

He is the winner of the first prize and public award of the International Robert-Schumann-Competition in 2012, Zwickau. In 2012 he made a sensational debut with Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch, at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. Since then he has been a regular guest at international concert halls and opera houses.

In 2015, after a live recording of Die Schöne Müllerin from the Wigmore Hall, his Debut-CD with Sony - Schubert Goethe-Lieder - came out. A further album, with Helmut Deutsch, – Lieder von Schumann – appeared in autumn 2016.

Swiss tenor Mauro Peter, who recently sang the role at La Scala, makes his North American debut as Belmonte. Belmonte is the prototypical Mozart tenor that requires a pureness of tone to match the purity of his motivation (smudged just a bit here); it’s no surprise that Covent Garden recognized Peter’s talent when looking for a Tamino for its fall “Magic Flute.” His opening aria, “Hier sol lich dich denn sehen,” delivered with the appropriate earnestness and passion, provides sharp contrast with the insults and threats of deadly, gruesome violence Osmin (Goran Juric) hurls first at unwelcome stranger Belmonte, then at romantic rival Pedrillo.

Zurich Opera - Orlando Paladino - Medoro, 2016/17

As Medoro, Mauro Peter had to sing around his partner’s perpetual changes of mood, but called up that host of reactions with vigour and conviction. With its simple harmonies, the lovers’ sweet aria, “May Cupid preserve this fidelity” in Act 2, was a true highlight of the evening.